The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

只有一天休息的心灵,会在愚蠢中萌芽,只有不断刻苦钻研的文化才能将其扼杀。

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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

在言语之外,有共同之处的词语在记忆中所形成的联想创造了不同的群体、系列、科,在这些群体中,获得了非常不同的关系,但都属于一个范畴:这些都是联想关系。

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

所有愚蠢行为中,代价最大的是狂热地相信明显不真实的东西。它是人类的主要职业。

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.

不过,丈母娘比一个单身、没有孩子的政治人物要好。

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

在古代,他们没有统计数据,所以他们不得不求助于谎言。

One seldom meets a lonely lie.

一个人很少会遇到孤独的谎言。